About the blog

As long as I have been on online heathen forums, I have encountered many modern myths. The internet are full of strange and wonderful theories and that is great, but many of them are not based on real facts or are ignoring facts to get their homegrown theory to fit. I will try to find the facts about these theories and share them here. Some of the posts will properly have to be rewritten/changed to accommodate new data or data I wasn’t aware of then posting the information on the first time. That’s only an natural development for such a blog.Since I am Danish and English isn’t my first language, I will properly make many grammatical and spelling mistakes. Please bear over with me.

I artiklen “Tattooed
Vikings? A look at medieval body art” på medievalists.net skriver Minjie Su “He
also describes images of wild boars that the Aestyans or the amber-gatherers
‘wear’ to honour and invoke protection from the Mother of the Gods. ‘This alone
serves them for arms, this is the safeguard of all, and by this every
worshipper of the Goddess is secured even amidst his foes. Rare amongst them is
the use of weapons of iron, but frequent that of clubs.’ The boar tattoo, if
Tacitus can be trusted, offers an interesting comparison to the animal design
of the Scots.”

About me

My name is Kim Pierri (Kim is a male name in Denmark). I have loved Viking history and Norsemythology since I was a child and have been an Asatru heathen since the 90ties. I’m a history and geography teacher and has a candidate degree (like a 2-year master) in these two subjects from Roskilde University. I’m the gothi in the kindred “Blotlauget for Roskilde og Omegn” and a member of the Asatru organization “The Troth”.